Novels, poems, essays, children's books -- Margaret Atwood can write it all. Since she released her first poetry collection Double Persephone in 1961, Atwood has published more than 50 works, including her dystopian masterpiece The Handmaid's Tale. M...

Yes, you always knew it and now there's proof - from Google and Microsoft no less. The paper is called "On the Near Impossibility of Measuring the Returns to Advertising" and is about a year and a half old. For those of you who do not have the time (...

Citizen scientists take note: You can help save the planet from threatening space rocks, and win some prize money to boot. NASA and asteroid-mining company Planetary Resources have teamed up to launch a contest series called "Asteroid Data Hunter," w...

There may be killer asteroids headed for Earth, and NASA has decided to do something about it. The space agency announced a new "Grand Challenge" on June 18 to find all dangerous space rocks and figure out how to stop them from destroying our planet....

The most exciting thing I've gotten off of Craigslist is a roommate, and to be honest, she wasn't all that groovy. But amidst the creepy missed connections and sexist offers for massage therapy, you can actually find some decent swag -- it just might...

Can you imagine what life would be like without social media? In order to find out, Mashable selected five brave readers to disconnect from all social media for two whole weeks. The goal of the challenge was to discover how social media has impacted ...

Could you disconnect from social media for two weeks? We asked Mashable readers to tell us why they would want to do just that, and after reviewing the answers we received, we chose five brave individuals to partake in the challenge. It’s been one we...

Social media has become ingrained in our daily lives, so much so that it can become overwhelming. Therefore, we decided to ask our readers: Why do you want to disconnect from social media for the next two weeks? We received over 80 responses, all of ...

With over 845 million active users on Facebook alone, it's safe to say that social media has become integrated into our daily lives. The social media explosion over the past few years has changed the way people and communities interact. Communication...

Last week we announced the Summer of Social Good, the first large scale online charitable campaign to raise funds strictly online through the power of Social Media and the Internet over an extended period. Running from June 1st till August 28th, each...

This post is part of Mashable’s Startup Review series, which highlights great unsung startups. The series is made possible by Sun Startup Essentials. Company Name DareMyCompany.com 20-Word Description DareMyCompany is a simple tool that lets companie...

The voting period for the BOSS Mashable Challenge ends Sunday, October 12th at 11:59 pm PT. So far, we have received over 2,500 votes. On Tuesday, October 14th, Mashable and Yahoo will verify the voting data and confirm the winners. The Grand Prize w...

This week we received more than 15 new submissions to the BOSS Mashable Challenge. Today, we highlight 5 of them, in addition to the applications we've already covered (see here and here). New submissions are being accepted through October 5th, at wh...

Mashable is proud to announce a partnership with Yahoo! Search to challenge the developer community to build an app on Yahoo! Search BOSS. BOSS is a completely open API from Yahoo! Search and has already been proven a successful API with such example...

Blog Networks is a new application for reading, rating and finding other people who enjoy the same blogs, all within Facebook. We've setup a Network for Mashable, where you can interact with our bloggers, find other Mashable fans, and keep up with ou...

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